People in Organizations - Motivation, Strategies, Effective Teams and Tuckman Theory

This presentation discusses the importance of people in organizations and how they connect and interact with their surroundings to meet and complete their individual and organizational goals collectively. It covers motivation theory, strategies used by companies to motivate their workforce, effective teams, and Tuckman team development theory. The presentation also evaluates how FitFlop uses these strategies to create a happy and healthy workforce. References are included for further reading.

People in Organizations

Table of
Content
 Introduction
 Motivation
 Motivation theory
 Strategies used by company to motivate their workforce
 Effective team
 Tuckman team development theory
 Conclusion

Introduction
 People in organizations refers to how
individuals and business organizations
connect and interact with their surroundings to
meet and complete their individual and
organizational goals collectively.
 Employees spend huge portions of their career
and lives interacting and connecting in
organizational matters that they are able to
complete their goals in organizations which
they would be incapable to complete alone.

Motivation
 Motivation can be defined as a process of initiating
and guiding an individual to perform their best for
accomplishing the desired goals.
 Motivation drives a person to respond or behave in
a certain way at a particular period of time.
 Employee motivation is important in an
organization because motivated employees work
harder and are more dedicated in their work.
 FitFlop is a leading footwear retailer in UK which
focuses on the customer value by providing them
good quality products.

Motivation
theory
 Motivation theory of Maslow is suitable
in recognizing the needs of an individual
which drives them to work in a more
dedicated manner.
 This theory is helpful for mangers in
identifying the basic needs of the
employees which help them in fulfilling
their basic life requirements.
 In context of FitFlop company, managers
adopted this theory for increasing the
productivity of their employers by
satisfying the needs.

Motivation
theory
 Physiological needs – This refers to the basic needs of an individual which
include food, shelter and clothes.
 Safety needs – After satisfying the basic needs, the people moves to next
level need which is known as safety needs.
 Social needs – This refer to the need of love and belongingness in the
workplace to feel motivated and accepted by other people.
 Esteem needs – It refers to the need of self-respect and admiration from
others to maintain dignity in the workplace for the position they hold.
 Self-actualization needs – Self-actualization needs mean reaching to the
maximum level of potential at work.

Strategies used
by company to
motivate their
workforce
 The main objective of FitFlop company is to create a happy and healthy
workforce by providing benefits that suit the needs of employees.
 FitFlop company uses compensation strategies that helps them in
determining the pay scale of their employees in relation with the position
level they belong to.
 They adopt friendly environment in the company to create a bond between
the employees for better team results.
 FitFlop has created a strategy for the health and wellbeing of their
employees to make them motivated by providing a healthy and happy
environment so that they do better at work.

Effective team
Teamwork is important in today's
business organizations to reach at the
pace of success. An effective team is the
one which gathers individuals to work
with each other in a coordinated way.
There are several characteristics of an
effective team:
 Communication between employees
 Listening actively
 Commitment

Tuckman team
development
theory
Tuckman theory explains the process of
initiating a task at the time of team formation to
the completion of the project at the time of wind
up. This theory states that the team has to go
through 5 stages for completing a task:
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing
 Adjourning

Conclusion
 It is concluded that leadership and motivation are two important
aspects that help the companies to grow in competitive market.
 Motivation also plays an important role in the company because
positive motivation helps the company in improving the
productivity.
 The report also evaluates motivation theory which helps the
company in understanding the employee needs.
 It has been evaluated from the following report that the company
focuses on creating a healthy environment for their employees by
adopting leadership and motivation models.

References
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